Notation for change of basis matrix from $\Bbb{R}^n \to \Bbb{R}^n$

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I wanted to confirm my understanding of the change of basis matrix and its notation and would appreciate if someone could follow my thinking and verify this please. Given two basis, $A$ and $B$ in the vector space $V \in \Bbb{R}^n$ and the linear maps $\phi_A$ and $\phi_B$ which take the standard basis:

$\phi_A(e_i) = \alpha_i $ and $\phi_B(e_i) = \beta_i $

Where $\alpha_i$ and $\beta_i$ are the basis vectors of the basis $A$ and $B$ for $i = 1,...,n$

For a vector $x$ in $V$ whose coordinate vector wrt $A$ and $B$ is $x_A$ and $x_B$ respectively we have

$[L]_E^Ax_E = x_A$ and $[L]_E^Bx_E = x_B$

where $[L]_E^A$ and $[L]_E^B$ are the matrices, associated with $\phi_A$ and $\phi_b$ that perform matrix multiplication.

So by assuming that the linear maps are non-singular, taking the inverse and equating $x_E$ we should get:

$x_A = [L]_E^A [L]_B^Ex_B $

which is the coordinate representation of the vector $x$ wrt the basis $A$ and $[L]_E^A [L]_B^E$ is the transformation matrix, $[L]_B^A$

Ultimately we have $ x_A = [L]_B^Ax_B $

Is my understanding and formalisation here correct or have I gone wrong somewhere?

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Yes your reasoning is fine, for the notation in matrix form we have

$$x_A=[L]_E^A \,x_E \quad x_B=[L]_E^B \,x_E$$

therefore

$$x_A=[L]_E^A \,x_E=L]_E^A ([L]_E^B)^{-1}\,x_B=L]_E^A [L]_B^E\,x_B=[L]_B^A \,x_B$$

with $[L]_B^A=L]_E^A [L]_B^E$.